DART collided asteroid's debris trail 6,000 miles long

DART collided asteroid's debris trail 6,000 miles long

DART MISSION

By: My space stories

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

Asteroid that got crashed by a NASA DART spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.

Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. 

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

The image shows an larger, comet-like tail more than 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long, made up of dust and other material spewed from the impact crater.

Scientists predict the tail to grow even overlong and scatter even more, becoming so reduced that it's undetectable.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

Extra studies are scheduled to determine how much and what kind of material was thrown off by the 525-foot Dimorphos, a asteroid.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

Mission cost was $325-million, destroyed in head ccollision. It's rehersal for future killer asteroids.

Credit: ASI/NASA

This Dimorphos asteroid was never dangerous to our Earth or nor in future.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

In future NASA & ESA have plans to send another probe for study the collided Dimorphos asteroid.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

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